2 Held after Stabbing Young Man to Death in Ashrafieh
A young man died of his wounds on Tuesday evening after being stabbed by two men during a brawl in Beirut's Ashrafieh district, media reports said.
“Marcelino Zamata was sitting in his car with his fiancee on the side of the road in Sassine Square when a verbal dispute erupted between him and two young men who were passing in the area on a motorcycle,” LBCI television said.
“The verbal dispute soon escalated into a fistfight during which the two young men stabbed him several times,” it added.
The two assailants fled the area before being eventually arrested by an undercover police patrol, the TV network said, identifying them as 19-year-old Palestinian national Ahmed Saad and 31-year-old Lebanese citizen Hassan Faqih.
The victim was rushed to the nearby Rizk Hospital where he soon succumbed to his injuries, LBCI said.
Other media reports have said that the brawl erupted after the two men addressed sexual harassment words to Marcelino's fiancee.
Y.R.
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